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Toys R Us has been struggling in recent months following poor Christmas trading and being hit with a tax bill of £15million, which it needs to pay by tomorrow.

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The retailer, which also has a store at Cribbs Causeway, had hoped to stave off the threat of administration before Christmas after securing a deal with the state-backed Pension Protection Fund that involved plugging a £9million hole in its pension fund.

Toys R Us has more than 230 shops in Europe and had filed for bankruptcy in Canada and the US in September 2017.